Scoring issue activity on things other than most recent comment ie upvotes, links ect..

[ashtonian]

The problem

Stale bot is becoming a plague, closing important issues and harming the community. It encourages people to spam issues to keep them open. It ignores much of the issue metadata, like reactions and links to external repositories.

The solution

Eventually I think the issue bot would be nice if it was based on a scoring model. A good first step though would be to prevent closing an issue with a certain number of comments, upvotes (reactions on the root) or external links from other repositories to that issue. If these were filters that could be applied, I think it would accomplish its goal of lowering issues while keeping relative ones still active.

Maybe allowing people to override the bot via community feedback through the comments would also help. Something other than lets blindly close an issue that hasn't been commented on in the last 30 days.

[github-actions]

This issue is stale because it has been open 30 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 5 days